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Keeping the Peace

Last Modified: May 13, 2015

Treaty 8 First Nations are challenging the Site C dam and changing the game for B.C. communities facing destructive mega-projects. Why is this important for all British Columbians, and how can non-Aboriginal people support Treaty 8 First Nations’ struggle for justice?

Photo credit: Caspar Davis

Treaty 8 First Nations are challenging the Site C dam and changing the game for B.C. communities facing destructive mega-projects. Why is this important for all British Columbians, and how can non-Aboriginal people support Treaty 8 First Nations’ struggle for justice?

Please join us for an evening of discussion, solidarity and action with Chief Roland Wilson, West Moberly First Nation, and Craig Benjamin, Amnesty International Canada.

Tuesday, May 12, 7-9 p.m.

First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Road, Victoria

The B.C. and federal government are pushing ahead with the Site C dam even though the governments’ own review panel found that that Site C would cause unmitigable impacts to Treaty 8 First Nations and negative impacts on the Peace Valley region as a whole. Treaty 8 First Nations and Peace Valley landowners are standing up in court for human rights, cultural survival, and productive farmland.

On Saturday July 11, Sierra Club BC will be paddling the Peace alongside youth and elders from Treaty 8 First Nations, third-generation Peace Valley farm families, resource industry workers, local government reps, and British Columbians from all over the province.

We are not even halfway through the Week to End Enbridge (Jun. 13-21) and already people all over B.C. have attended Pull Together events raising thousands for First Nations fighting Enbridge in courts.

Sierra Club BC’s Youth Environmental Leadership Program (YELP) have joined the Pull Together campaign and organized a fantastic musical double bill in support of First Nations legal challenges against Northern Gateway.